The Road To Civil Rights: B. Vocabulary. Match The Word With Its Definition
The Road To Civil Rights: B. Vocabulary. Match The Word With Its Definition
Source: Smithsonian
___ 3. nonviolent C. person who protests to call attention to a cause, like civil rights
___ 4. discrimination D. peaceful
___ 5. integration E. keeping things or people separate
___ 6. prejudice F. bringing separate groups together
C. Name That Protest! Take a look at the diary entries of these young civil rights activists and
decide which type of protest they participated in. Check the action that each story describes.
1. I walk to my summer job with my 2. It was scary, but we sat down at the
lunch counter and waited to be served.
brother six days a week. Last summer, It wasn’t fair that this diner refused to
we rode the bus, and it only took us 15 serve blacks, and we decided to sit at that
minutes. Now we walk four miles each counter until they did serve us. We didn’t
way! It takes over an hour, but it is make a scene, didn’t yell, didn’t break stuff.
important for us all to send a message. We just sat there and waited. Angry people
The bus company needs to know that came up and hit us, yelled in our faces, and
even dumped a milkshake on my friend’s
we do not support segregated seating head! But we stayed. After three straight
and discrimination. days, the diner finally decided to serve us!
q March q Voter Registration Drive q March q Voter Registration Drive
q Boycott q Sit-In q Boycott q Sit-In
3. My feet hurt! We are on day three of our four 4. A bunch of my friends from college and
day walk from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. We I joined other students and drove to the
travel about 12 miles a day and sleep in the fields South to get African Americans to register
to vote. Many were scared because groups
alongside the road. It isn’t easy, but we sing songs like the KKK had been beating up people
and meet other people as we walk. Our goal is to get when they went to the polling places. If a
the state and federal politicians to help blacks vote boss found out that his black employee was
in the South. We hope that having over 25,000 in our registered to vote, he’d fire him! We went
group will get their attention and make change! down to educate them about their rights and
support them so they would get out and vote!
q March q Voter Registration Drive q March q Voter Registration Drive
q Boycott q Sit-In q Boycott q Sit-In
D. Alphabet Soup. The civil rights movement was made up of many different groups and
organizations, and most were known by their acronyms. Fill in the blanks using the word bank to
discover what these letters mean!
Organizations Student Christian Racial Advancement
Linda Brown
Problems and Solutions. Remember those ‘What if’ statements earlier in the lesson? They weren’t
made up! The Supreme Court made many decisions that changed the way laws treated African
Americans. In your PDF reader, draw lines to connect the story, problem, and how the Court solved it.
The Story The Problem Supreme Court Solution
Mildred (African American) The owner of the Heart of 1962- Bailey v. Patterson:
and Richard Loving (white) Atlanta hotel refused to The Court banned racial
get married in Washington, rent rooms to blacks, even segregation of interstate (from
DC and move to Virginia though the Civil Rights Act of one state to another) and
where they are charged 1964 said he had to. intrastate (within one state)
with a crime. transportation facilities.
A group of African State and local laws said that 1967- Loving v. Virginia: The
Americans try to check in to all of the city buses, trains, Court decides that state laws
a hotel in Atlanta, Georgia. and subway cars must banning interracial marriage
be divided into areas for are unconstitutional.
different races.
African Americans were Virginia law that said you 1964- Heart of Atlanta v.
forced to sit and stand in could only marry someone United States: The Court said
different areas of the public who was the same race as that the federal government
transportation system. you. could enforce desegregation
laws on businesses that served
people from other states.
Atlanta, Georgia
February, 1957
The Southern Christian Leadership
Washington, D.C.
Conference (SCLC) developed out of the August 28, 1963
Montgomery Bus Boycott. It was founded
by 60 black ministers, including Martin More than 250,000 people gather on the Mall
Luther King, Jr. It is still run out of its during the peaceful March on Washington. This
original offices in Atlanta. event was organized by the NAACP and other
civil rights groups. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivers
Greensboro, North Carolina his “I Have a Dream” speech on the steps of the
February 1, 1960 Lincoln Memorial.